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Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK
By Robert Booth and Ian Ferguson / The Gaurdian The alliance with Israel is the latest twist in the already extraordinary saga of Khalid's bid to return to power

Categories: Arabian Peninsula  Israel  Iran  United Arab Emirates  Gulf Emirate  

Added: July 29, 2010

Prince warns S. Arabia of apocalypse
By PRESS TV Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the country's royal family to step down and flee before a military coup or a popular uprising overthrows the kingdom.

Categories: Saudis  Arabian Peninsula  Dictatorship  Corruption  Military Coup  

Added: June 10, 2010

The stakes get higher as Arab princes try to outdo each other
By Robert Fisk / The Independent Afghanistan is collapsing in blood; Iraq remains a state of semi-civil war; the Israelis continue to thieve land for Jews and Jews only from the Arabs who hold the title deeds to that property - and Prince al-Waled wants to build a tower reaching a kilometre into the sky. Do the Saudis - who gave so much largesse to the Taliban  - not have the slightest idea of what is going on around them.

Categories: Arabian Peninsula  Dubai  Corruption  Saudis  Wealth  

Added: January 18, 2010

Burj Khalifa: Behind the glitz
By Rafia Zakaria / altmuslim.com The inauguration of the tower and the acquittal of the sheikh is a lurid juxtaposition of the hypocrisy, gluttony and crude injustice that lies beneath a glitzy façade. None of the innovation or glamour is indigenous; the architecture is American, the designers European and the slave labour South Asians.

Categories: Dubai  Arabian Peninsula  Brutality  Exploitation  Injustice  Expatriates  

Added: January 16, 2010

Saudi Arabia goes to war
By Mai Yamani / The Gaurdian By attacking the Houthi rebels of Yemen, Riyadh is ill-advisedly turning up the heat on the region's cold war. A crucially important conflict, woefully under-reported in the west, has now come to a head in the Middle East. In response to an ongoing fight that could spill out beyond the Arabian peninsula.

Categories: Yemen  Saudis  Sectarianism  The Arab World  Arabian Peninsula  

Added: November 23, 2009